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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada 95 LRM Error?
Date: 1999/01/28
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In article <36AFC42A.57696F4D@easystreet.com>,
  Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote:
> That the Binary_Format doesn't specify the field size
> also makes it a little hard to be consistent with the
> Cobol code I know about, which allows a compile time
> switch to indicate whether or not a number with
> fewer than 3 digits uses one or two bytes.

I don't see anyway the interface can be compatible with
odd non-standard COBOL stuff like this!

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